Our services

Paediatric care

Neonatal care

The Bays has an award-winning maternity service which involves the delivery and post-delivery care of newborn babies. Our special care nursery is a state-of-the-art facility featuring the latest equipment and technology. Our team of qualified midwives and paediatricians care for babies in our nursery. Many of our paediatricians are based at The Bays and we always have a paediatrician on-call to attend the nursery 24-hours a day.

Paediatric surgery

We care for many children who have surgery at The Bays.

Our surgeons regularly perform:

• tonsillectomy
• grommets insertion
• adenoidectomy
• oral surgery and tooth removal
• orthopaedic surgery for broken bones or dislocations
• minor plastic surgery

Some of these procedures only require a day surgery visit. These patients are cared for in our Day Surgery Unit and then discharged to go home.

What to expect when your child has surgery

We encourage children to bring a favourite toy or book, and provide paediatric patients with a donated teddy bear for comfort.

We encourage parents and carers to be involved in the care of a child needing to be admitted to hospital (including washing, feeding and entertaining them). This helps minimise their distress at being in a strange place.

Paediatric patients are welcome to bring one support person with them before entering the operating theatre. We ask that you stay with your child before surgery and while they recover.

Nursing staff will direct you to a waiting area while your child is in surgery.

Overnight stays

If your child is staying overnight after surgery, they will be cared for in a private room on our surgical ward.

One parent or carer is allowed to stay overnight with a child patient, and we will provide a recliner/bed in the same room.